Doyle McManus: Right-wing militia leaders, on trial for sedition, continue to threaten democracy
by Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times
Oct 10, 2022
3 minutes
Five leaders of the Oath Keepers, a right-wing militia that played a leading role in storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, went on trial last week in Washington.
The defendants, including Stewart Rhodes, the Yale-educated lawyer who founded the group, were charged with "seditious conspiracy": plotting to attack the federal government by force to prevent Congress from certifying the 2020 presidential election.
Prosecutors said Rhodes and others planned the assault on the Capitol, ordered their troops
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